Sentence examples for understand the thing from inspiring English sources

"But they might understand the thing about the fort," she said.

"Australians understand the thing about Malcolm is it's always about Malcolm," he said.

"To understand her, you have to understand the thing she has about right and wrong, God and the devil, bad and good – all that stuff which we don't really have, fortunately, in England".

It was shown to us by Dr. William W. Havens, a pink-cheeked young Columbia physicist who does understand the thing, and is, in fact, on such casual terms with it that he refers to it simply as "the beast".

In a second case of true subalternation, Grosseteste holds, the science of the parts of a thing, which realize its functioning, must be brought into play to understand the thing.

Even controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who was refused entry to Britain last week, after his terrifying anti-Islamic film Fitna caused such outrage, doesn't bother to understand the thing he deplores.

"My responsibility is that you understand the things that have to be done," he said.

And how can I not know or understand the things that happen inside my own body?

The aim, she says, is that we understand the things that are happening behind those doors and collectively act.

She teaches a class at the center in "mamalushen," the mother tongue of Yiddish, to seniors who want to better understand "the things you heard your mother say".

I wanted my mom to understand the things that were so important to me, and I wanted her to love me in a way she couldn't.